Stark D P, House A
ICRF Department of Medical Oncology, St James's University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7TF.
Br J Cancer. 2000 Nov;83(10):1261-7. doi: 10.1054/bjoc.2000.1405.
Anxiety is common in cancer patient populations, and must often initially be recognized and managed by cancer care professionals. This article reviews the recent oncology and mental health literature on anxiety. The aim is to help those involved in cancer patient care who are not specialists in mental health to understand the nature of anxiety, and discriminate morbid from normal anxiety. We review recent research into the association of anxiety with events during diagnosis and management of cancer, highlighting the importance of the meaning of events to an individual as an important factor in making people anxious. Lastly we review management strategies which might be used by cancer care professionals, in particular the importance of an awareness of specific patterns of communication which may alleviate or maintain anxiety for some cancer patients.
焦虑在癌症患者群体中很常见,通常必须首先由癌症护理专业人员识别和处理。本文回顾了近期关于焦虑的肿瘤学和心理健康文献。目的是帮助那些参与癌症患者护理但并非心理健康专家的人员了解焦虑的本质,并区分病态焦虑与正常焦虑。我们回顾了近期关于焦虑与癌症诊断和治疗过程中各种事件之间关联的研究,强调事件对个体的意义作为导致人们焦虑的一个重要因素的重要性。最后,我们回顾了癌症护理专业人员可能采用的管理策略,特别是意识到特定的沟通模式对某些癌症患者焦虑程度的缓解或维持作用的重要性。